Know Your Rights

It is 100% legal to openly record police in all 50 states as long as you do not physically interfere with the officer. (It's also probably wise to speak as little as possible, but DO make note of details - location, names, etc)

Police officers do not have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" while preforming their public duties.

If an officer says it's illegal to record him, that officer is lying to try and trick you into shutting off the camera so you won't have proof of them violating your rights.

Use a livestreaming app to record your videos. If your phone is seized, the police cannot delete the video because the video was never on the phone to begin with.

If you were distributing pictures that were supposed to portray the iraqis as victims of american's bad acts, you would censor the girls eyes, not the dick... You aren't trying not to offend people here, but you are also not trying to blow the victim's anonymity...

On really?! My staff Sgt ordered a private to put a loaded shotgun with a lethal round into the mouth of a 15 year old detainee that didn't do anything but was a member of a family being detained. The kid a hit his pants while my entire unit laughed their ass off!

I reported this to my LT Colonel who told me that they are all rag head terrorists and forget about it.

This shit happens and fuck all of you alpha male military asshole with such low intelligence you obey illegal orders to impress your friends and fuck you Sr leadership and officers that let this happen. You are making terrorists with this behavior and killing our brothers and sisters in the military because of this shit.

Fuck you buddy. You can go through my history like anyone else. I am not posting for internet fame, just saying what happened. What have you done in your life to contribute to humanity?
I've pulled bodies from the OKC bombing when I was 14 with the red cross. What have you done besides post on the internet and fap to reddit posts?

Fake story? Pal, I don't have to prove a goddamn thing to you or anyone else here. Those of us that lived it, we don't owe a single fucking thing to you ignorant kids who ride on the blood we've shed for you. But say what you want as the internet is your cover. I took bullets into the shoulder for you to talk stupid shit. You. Your generation who never had to bleed for this country. You are what is wrong with this country. M
Fucker. You go to war. You make the decision to fight for the freedoms you use so blatantly. Until you do that. You are one of those ignorant humans and bitch about shit they don't have and want but are unwilling to fight for them.

And I'm guessing you're some ass who never even saw a war zone. How fucking dare you. Ever served in the military? Been to war?? No?? Then shit the fuck up. Good to just sit here and spout stupid shit out over the internet from you stupid face while men like me and other men lay our lives on the line for you to say dumb shit like this.
Your forget, just because you have the right to say idiotic shit like this that men like me pay for with our blood, doesn't mean you should say it.

You ever been in a war zone ass? Ever feel the pressure of your battle buddies and the animosity you get when having to report your fellow brother for doing something wrong against humanity? No?!? Then shut the fuck up kid. Reporting these soldiers, my brothers in arms for violating the Geneva convention was one of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life. Regardless, they were wrong. I went to my captain first who ignored me, I then went to my battalion commander, LT Colonel, who told me that in no certain terms that everyone of these people were terrorists. I lost my promotion and transferred to another plt because of this.

Fuck you. I did the right thing and paid for it. The military doesn't care about doing the right thing. Stop watching Fox news you idiot.
Unless you've been there and served like I did, you have nothing to even begin to challenge me pal.

FOB falcon. Tent city to the west, power plant on the north, barracks in the middle. East gate led to a long path with walls and out to the main road. West gate led to main entrance between the dfac and command just past the laundry area which got hit by a mortar while I was there. North of that was the landing area where our shithooks and Blackhawks landed. 1st cav was on our south with blackjack on our north. Central was in the middle with paladins on the north for.indirect fire when needed and they went off all the time. Wreck city, or the graveyard for destroyed vehicles was 100 meters from tent city.

We also had a truck run around our 30 ft wall and fire a mortar into our aha and lit the whole fucking thing up for 2 days. I spent 2 weeks eating mres in my barracks because of that shit. YouTube FOB falcon aha. I lived through that shit.

You motherfuckers call me a liar? Sounds more like you all are cuddled public idiots with no idea what happens in real life for soldiers.

2) "private" - once again military uses acronyms. So he's implying he was Army with private..... Should have been referring to a PFC probably.

3) "loaded shotgun with a lethal round" - shotguns aren't exactly standard military issue. Also, I don't know that I've seen someone specify what the weapon was unless it was important to the story. It's kind of like saying "brown horse" when the color of the horse doesn't matter to the story.

12) "You are making terrorists" - once again you are referring to another group. And "making terrorists" comes from something other than a U.S. presence.

13) "killing our brothers and sisters in the military" - is once again not how a soldier would phrase it.

I think 13 immediate glaring errors should be enough to demonstrate.... NOPE!

Also - - Scrolled through your comments for a page or two. You're 35 which means you enlisted in 2005 because you went 19D at the age of 26. You lived in Bondon for 5 years but you've been dealing with police for "25 years in 30 states." You started working when minimum wage was $3 an hour (1980) so you should be 51. You said you joined the military at 25 so you had an IT career in the 80s but found it relevant when you got out? You should have been deployed in 2010 because you "used duct tape and wood for armor in Iraq because the tax payers money was paying for Cheney's fucking heart surgery. " And you lived in the Sudan for a couple of years... and you were part of the kidnappings in the Sudan? When was that? When you left the military the #1 recruiter was the police department? When the hell was THAT!?!? You don't know the basic lingo - "I myself had my girl do a Jody call. I was smart enough not to marry her though." "Don't ets out." You switched branches because now there's a LT commander.... not a light colonel... and I'm not sure why you'd report anything to company commander with out taking this up at a platoon level.... (scroll down for more comments he made)

i downvoted you at first, because fuck man, I say/have said/typed many of the things that put up "red flags" in your list. I did my time. Basically your numbers 1,2, 10, 11, 12, 13 annoyed me reading them. Then I got to the last part of your post, and changed it to an upvote. Great digging on this fucking asshole. He is probably some delusional loser who has convinced itself his lies are truths.

Ha Ha Ha. True. I broke some rules of arguing. I was... well... I was angry enough that my initial post looked like it was bleeding it had so many errors. Thankfully this text box doesn't screen for grammar or would have had a Christmas tree of a post to fix.

Well excuse the fuck out me for using of colonel versus Ltc. I guess that means an acronym goof means I'm full of shit. You fucking idiot kid. It doesn't matter what acronym I use. Stop being a fucking grammar Nazi for upvotes you douche

Skyrender - Let's take a walk down your posting history and see who the bullshitter is.

And we are only going to talk about the things that haven't already been countered.

"recall the hot dog meal, aka, the 5 fingers of death." - it was 4 - and those went away in 2000. You claim to have enlisted in 2005. or 2004... or - wow. I have no idea. It varies wildly depending on how old you were when you went to MEPS. When you enlisted seems to change from 26, 27, or 28. You also refer to Ham & Cheese Omlete which I believe went away in 1992 (which grossed me out to find out because I know I had one in 95. I know they have a shelf life but come on!)

You guarded Halliburton trucks but you would only know them as KBR. Halliburton trucks weren't over there after the drama in the early 2000s.

"I can't remember clearly, but I was C troop something/15 3rd platoon" (in response to someone posting "OSUT in Nov '02 with B Trp 5/15. Nice try. People remember stuff like that. And your numbering is all out of whack for the claimed timeline)

Your story changes to suit your needs. Sometimes you bring the 15/16 year old into the Stryker and it's just you and 2 others. Sometimes you have more people involved. Sometimes he's part of a family. Sometimes he's alone at 3 am.

"This was the case when I joined back in 2005." <- when did you join again? So you joined in 05 - did a 20 week OUST (apparently you did a couple parts twice because it's only a 16 week OSUT)- deployed for 15 months - and got kicked out? "19D ya douche. E5" - Shit! In less than 2 years! That's freaking AMAZING! Then you claim "CAB earned multiple times over during my tour." Not - possibile THEN? You claim "CAB/PH/SC/BS." Apparently you're super troop!

You claim to get calls from recruiters monthly. You wouldn't call them recruiters. You'd call them retention NCOs. They would only call you once a quarter AND if you got pushed out you wouldn't be getting calls because running a waiver is too much of a pain in the butt.

"The VA denied me benefits because I was discharded before my service time was supposed to end." <- Do what? "I didn't ask for ALS and I didn't want to cut my service short, but the army refuses to acknowledge that this is service connected." So now you were kicked out because you got ALS... and nothing? No VA? No medical seperation? Just kicked out? "I was honorably discharged because my CPT and 1st SGT told me that they didn't believe the DR's and that they would never allow me to recieve the benefits of real soldiers in the battlefield." Oh... yeah... that makes sense.... sure.

"My base was camp falcon was if you google, our AHA was hit by a mortar and for 2 days our entire ammo supply was blown to pieces. I was around 500 meters from the dump." If you'd google you'd learn you claimed the wrong unit to have been there.

"I used duct tape and wood for armor in Iraq because the tax payers money was paying for Cheney's fucking heart surgery. " Meaning you would have deployed in 2010 - and wouldn't have been at Falcon when it went boom.

"I myself had my girl do a Jody call. I was smart enough not to marry her though." Giggle. I don't think this means what you think this means but the mental picture is AWESOME!

You claim to have gotten your service medical records by walking into a recruiting station. As a former recruiter, I WISH it was that easy. "DD-214 and everything else." UH HUH. Yeah. That happened.

I could continue but I think this should be enough. I'm going to leave out the BS about your work, your family, your OKC story.... We're going to stick with just the lies you've told about being in the military.
Your lingo is off. Your dates don't line up. Your information about where and when are from blogs and videos and some of them you just had to fake your way through. Here's a hint - if you're going to link a youtube video that was put up by someone else? Don't use their story.
Your descriptions are off for the places you went and the timeline you claim. At one point you are describing the wrong damn FOB! You keep asking for people to validate you. I think it's pretty clear who is wrong in this situation.
Please, do us all a favor... Don't try to pretend to be who you're not. It's pathetic and pisses on those who really have served.

To whomever gave gold. I hope you are having a great 2014 and I wish you the best. .

Hmmmm. Now I need to figure out what to do with this. I've given gold but haven't received.... is it time to explore? I think so. I'm lost... what do I do... how do? What do I? OK (WOOSA) Um.... this is cool! :) You made my night.
Thanks again anonymous, Redditor. HOOAH :) (And Huggos... cause it's not me if I don't give HUGGOS!)

Edit: Coming home to gold is amazing and surreal. I can't talk intelligently. I need to edit :)
I will go back to my corner now :)

LaskaLee let's take a walk down your life.
I served proudly in the army and put my life on the line for you and the people here. You. What the fuck did you do? You surf the internet and try to call me out on my service because of a few mistakes on spelling? Fuck.you.

I bled for you and this country. Just because in post something on the internet does not in any fucking way give your dumb ass the right to even begins to call me out.

You want to call bullshit on me?? Fine, it's your right to blather on uninformed nonsense. But don't you even fucking dare say I'm full of shit and lying.
I've had to deal with ALS and ptsd from the army for almost 10 years for my service. Be in a fucking wheelchair and hooked to an apap machine for a year you motherfucker!

I offered up my life for this country you cunt and I am still paying for it with no help from the very country I swore to defend. Fuck you buddy! I've been slowly dying because of what I served for. Tell me what you did for our country you fucking prick!!??

I'm sure you want to believe that. I'm sure you think this is all about a spelling error. I'm sure you feel special for swearing at people on the thread and you believe screaming louder is going to make someone believe you.

I think we all believe there is plenty of abuse and torture going around on all sides of conflict, including our side. Nobody really doubts that, if history is any indicator. However, people are just skeptical at the specific claims and generally sensationalist and politically biased nature of this "article". The pictures have no sources or context. No real conclusions can be drawn here about anything specific based on this.

Eastern Baghdad from FOB falcon. At this point, I'm ready to call off of my plt out. And for those military guys that want to down on me for calling put detainee abuse, fuck you, these are people, not all of them are terrorists you fucking alpha male.sadistic assholes.

It's an unlawful order, you don't have to follow it. My point was if you see someone doing fucked up shit don't cry to the CoC, grab your nuts, and take care of it yourself. If you can't do that then you have no business crying about it to the rest of the world.

I'm not grasping the context of your comment here. Are you calling me a merc, or the subject of my post? I'm going with the former here. Ever been in the armed forces? The culture and politics aren't known to the general public. Also, this isn't Vegas. What happens in Iraq doesn't stay in Iraq. My brothers and sisters with ptsd will gladly tell you that. With war comes war crimes. It is going to happen when you ask children to fight wars for you. Let me be clear here. The military recruits children and in this era, these children who have no life experience, fight, kill and obey on command. Sorry to say this, but read a little, Hitler knew this and enlisted children. These kids join under lies from commercials on tv and recruiters. They have no idea about adulthood and join the military to be brainwashed by men who joined as kids themselves to kill and be the alpha killer. Every kid who joins wants to be the super soldier, snake pliskin, rambo or solid snake. They fill your head with this bullshit that you can be anything. Wrong. They want killers. They are very good at neglecting morality and instilling violence.
Don't be alarmed though. We want killers for an effective army. That is what they are supposed to do. If our army is supposed to be effective, they must kill. But war crimes. That is another topic here.

I.don't like War crimes happened in front of me. I what little I could do and yes, I paid for it in my career. Not being a part of the good ole boy's club hurts you in the armed forces. It's the same as the police force around the US. Beat your prisoner and prove you're with us or get tossed out. It is a shame.

well, it IS a song so catchy most people probably don't listen to the lyrics - but they should! Because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself!

Firstly, those aren't all US Military personell. Next, those US uniforms haven't been worn in combat in almost a decade...so any offenses that occurred did so, more likely than not, under the previous administration. Lastly, none of these photos have any context, so determining what happened is impossible without more info.

I continually say this to people in this sub: there are plenty of legitimate things to discuss concerning police and military situatuons...but let's not post things for freaking fake Internet points, especially when our time could be better spent on REALLY important issues

And.....shenanigans have been called. This article is propaganda. While some photos on this page might be US torture, and of course the US has been involved in torture, this random assortment of painful photos hardly proves anything and is nothing more than fear mongering.

This page is no better than the fear mongering the US Government has participated in to get its citizens to stand behind numerous useless wars.

What the fuck is this? What does this have to do with cops? Some of those photos aren't even at American detention facilities and one of them at least is definitely not Americans guarding the detainees.

I don't understand the second the last pic, that was taken at jack adema's (wearing sunglasses) trial in Kabul over the torture and other charges....not saying the rest aren't real but I would be skeptical of the the article.

Also- You want to call me out on on the OKC bombing? Go to the OKC. see the monuments plaques there. You will see the inscription on the headstone with Fredrick C. Collins engraved there. It's there because I WAS there. I pulled bodies from the building and put them in the morgue. I held the firefighters on their knees crying their eyes out from the terror that was in front of us.

911? Kids, I was there when terror hit home in the 90's.

You don't get to call me out. I earned my place in humanity more than once.
Until you pull the body of a dead toddler from an exploded building, take a bullet in a desert or watch your best friend blown in half, you don't get the right call me or any of my brothers and sisters in combat out.

Amendment 1157, entitled the Censorship of Photographs of Future Torture Amendment and creates a loophole in the Freedom of Information Act. With this loophole, the Secretary of Defense is granted the power to conceal photographs of any torture of prisoners whether those photographs were taken in the past, or will be taken in the future.

It isn't that easy to explain away. Soldiers have to obey orders. We aren't the enemy. It was a job and privilege to serve. We didnt get a choice on the country. However, most of us agree with you. We shouldn't have been there, but what can you do? Fail to report for deployment is a crime They court Marshall you for that. You gotta go. Don't hate the soldiers, we have no choice. People tend to forget that military service is a contract and we have no choice in the matter. You can't just quit like a normal job. There is no walking out or quitting military service. Try to quit and they lock you up then discharge you dishonorably and ruin your life forever.

People tend to forget that military service is a contract and we have no choice in the matter.

I haven't forgotten that, but, correct me if I'm wrong, one has to sign a contract for it to be binding. It's not as if we have a draft. You sign up to be a soldier. Soldiers invade and kill and loot, that's what they have always done and that's what they will always do. I have no pity for soldiers.

You are correct. And lot of these soldiers are young kids with no direction in life and it becomes kids leading kids.
I joined in my later 20s and had a career to fall back on after my service. For the majority of these kids, They have their violent tendencies exacerbated and have no direction after service.

It is voluntary and I'm not saying otherwise. But a lot of us serve with honor and integrity. Not all of us throw puppies off of cliffs and shoot innocent people in combat. A good number of us uphold the weak and defenseless. We serve with honor.

I totally get that and respect it. I am still not shedding any tears over it though. We have a system that glorifies military life and not much countering those opinions so I can see how a young person could think that the military is their only option. I would say in 90% of those cases there are other options.

At the end of the day, a soldier's job is to kill and possibly be killed/damaged. It's not like after basic training they say, "surprise! Time to enforce the will of others on people who don't know you exist!". One enters military service knowing what will be expected of them.